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diff --git a/doc/building/llvm/GNULinux-GNAT.rst b/doc/building/llvm/GNULinux-GNAT.rst index d72de34a2..b0f26b991 100644 --- a/doc/building/llvm/GNULinux-GNAT.rst +++ b/doc/building/llvm/GNULinux-GNAT.rst @@ -24,3 +24,15 @@ On Linux, GHDL is configured by ``configure`` and build by ``make``. ../configure --prefix=PREFIX make sudo make install + + +.. TODO:: + You need to install LLVM (usually depends on :samp:`libedit`, see :ghdlsharp`29`). The supported versions are 3.5 till 3.9, but debugging is only supported with LLVM 3.5. + + - First configure GHDL with the proper arg :samp:`./configure --with-llvm-config`. If :samp:`llvm-config` is not in your path, you can specify it: :samp:`./configure --with-llvm-config=LLVM_INSTALL/bin/llvm-config`. + + .. HINT:: + If you want to have stack backtraces on errors (like assert failure or index of out bounds), you need to configure and build :samp:`libbacktrace` from GCC (you don't need to configure GCC). Then add the following arg to configure: :samp:`--with-backtrace-lib=/path-to-gcc-build/libbacktrace/.libs/libbacktrace.a` + + - Then build with :samp:`make` and install with :samp:`make install`. + |